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Calgary Wranglers hire former captain Brett Sutter as head coach
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Paige Siewert
Jun 20, 2025, 20:45 EDT
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The Calgary Wranglers have announced who will be taking over head coaching duties for the team in 2025-26 and it is a face familiar to the team and the organization: Brett Sutter.
Sutter has been with the Wranglers since their inaugural season in 2022, serving as their captain for the first two seasons up until 2024. Last summer, he made the decision to retire as a player and was offered an assistant coaching job with his former team. 
In the 2024-25 season, Brett Sutter received a temporary promotion to Interim Head Coach when Trent Cull was called up to the Flames to cover Brad Larsen’s leave of absence and Interim Head Coach at the time, Joe Cirella, needed to take a couple of weeks away from the team to recover from a routine eye procedure. 
Sutter ended up coaching for the better part of February. He also filled in for Cirella to Coach Team Pacific at the AHL All-Star game on February 2nd and 3rd. He was joined by Rory Kerins and Devin Cooley, who also represented the team at this event. 
In his first year as an Assistant Coach and briefly Interim Head Coach, the Wranglers finished fifth in the Pacific Division and qualified for the first round of playoffs. They were then knocked out by the Coachella Valley Firebirds in game two of a best-of-three series. Trent Cull re-joined the team for playoffs at the conclusion of the Flames season and his Assistant Coaching position has been made permanent as of late May. 
As a player, Brett Sutter played 60 NHL games and 1,090 AHL games. He celebrated his 1,000th game with the Wranglers on December 21, 2022 against his former team, the Ontario Reign. As if the night wasn’t memorable enough, he was also scored the game-winning goal.
Brett Sutter was drafted by the Flames back in 2005, going 179th overall in the sixth round. In his playing career, he put up 463 points in the AHL and 10 points in the NHL. Sutter played 18 games with the Flames and yes, he is the son of former Flames Head Coach Darryl Sutter. His roots run deep in this organization and he is the best placed person to continue on his personal legacy and the legacy of his family with a key developmental piece of the club.

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